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Thursday, October 24, 2013

Save The Planet…Kill Yourself

I have to
be brutally honest; I would HATE to be Alan Weisman and to have such a bleak
outlook on life that you end up loathing not only yourself, but every other
human on the planet so much that you advocate the elimination of the human
species in a misguided effort to “save” the planet.

Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a
Future on Earth is
Weisman’s follow up to the book A World
Without Us a pleasant little tale that would have the world heal and
replenish itself, once relieved of the burden of human existence. Like I said,
pleasant stuff. Apparently uncomprehending exactly how human biology works;
Weisman thinks that human’s could be re-introduced to the newly healed and
revived planet.

Weisman’s
anti-human screed is certainly not new, he merely picks up where the cult of
Paul Erlich left off with his late 1960s doomsday predictions of population out
of control and the Earth sucked dry. Weisman is lauded for his “journalistic”
approach by asking a series of questions on the subject of a sustainable
future. He visits 21 countries around the globe to try to get a handle on the
question of what is an acceptable way to find and attain a sustainable
population.

Like so
much of the biased media, Weisman funnels everything through a jaundiced prism
of his assumptions about the planet. He takes a statistic like the claim of a
billion people going hungry and blames it on the assumption that it is caused
by overpopulation and a lack of capacity to grow food to sustain the
population. He never bothers to look at the question from the perspective of
not a lack of capacity, but one of delivery. Is it a lack of food or the lack
of a viable/reliable delivery mechanism?

I remember
vividly stories of Bob Geldof and Live Aid rockers buying tens of thousands of
pounds of food to aid the hungry; that ended up rotting on docks due to the
lack of a system to deliver the food to those in need. Again is the question
capacity or delivery?

The problem
for Weisman, Erlich and their ilk is that they put themselves on the record,
predicting calamitous outcomes and the always end up being wrong. Yes. ALWAYS
WRONG! In the end the arguments these people make in favor of their position
spiral downward into a cascade of ridiculous, disgusting or down right
despicable conclusions. Weisman writes about a “distinguished” Japanese
economist who claimed that a post WWIIbaby boom was halted by legalizing abortion to avoid starvation and –
“can actually grow happier as it’s now shrinking numbers approach a more
sustainable size” Hey, get happy, kill a baby! Absolutely despicable, at least
to normal people.

Weisman also seems
obsessed with being able to control the population; not just the overall head
count, but the ability to maintain order and control people. Which is really
what is at the root of twisted liberalism; enacting controls on the masses. It
is striking that rather than seeking solutions to the problems, real or
perceived, Weisman seek to eliminate the “problem” rather than find the
solution.